“The overwhelming and fundamental tragedy of human autonomy was the creature’s alienation from God the Creator. The compulsion to hide from God’s face meant the loss of protection, provision, and self for our first parents, and shame came to dominate the human condition. From then on people would live with a simultaneous longing and loathing for the face of God, …
“You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound.” Psalm 4:7 Devotion: It is a bit of a surprise that this Psalm joins together a life where the world is turned upside down and joy. We might think these two things are mutually exclusive. However, David shows us that when God carries …
God never commands us to do what he does not enable us to do. And through Paul’s letter to the church in Philippi, in modern-day northeastern Greece, God both tells us to rejoice and also gives us great reason to rejoice–whatever we are facing in life. Joy is a spiritual grace that we all need to experience in our Christian …
